"...where yet there can be revolution without machine guns.”

Appellate Court Judge Learned Hand achieved fame because so many of his views were adopted by the US Supreme Court. He was called its tenth justice.

While traveling in Europe he described the America of his times, the 1940s and 50s, with “I have looked to my own country, distracted as she might be by a Babel of voices, uncertain of her purposes and her path; where yet there can be revolution without machine guns.”

If America's Dominionists achieve their ends, wars of religion will create here the non-religious attitudes so prevalent in Europe, the inevitable result of wars of religion.

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Don't get all wrought up over the above prospect; experience is a far more effective teacher than reason.